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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballyshannon It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Ballyshannon
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Ballyshannon Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Ballyshannon
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Ballyshannon "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Ballyshannon
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Ballyshannon As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Ballyshannon By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Ballyshannon
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Ballyshannon Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Ballyshannon
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Ballyshannon Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Ballyshannon
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Ballyshannon It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ballyshannon
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Ballyshannon The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a rest period between romances. Ballyshannon
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Ballyshannon It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballyshannon The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Ballyshannon
